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To celebrate Ryan Decenzo going pro Darkstar sent us through some signed stuff including one of his pro model decks and an A4 poster. We are keeping the deck for now but the poster is up for grabs. I use the term ‘poster’ loosely, really it’s an A4 print out but it is signed so it’s pretty cool.

There is an interview with him on the Darkstar site and they have put out this little video full of hammers…

All you have to do to win the ‘poster’ is send us a link to a video of you or your friends skating on YouTube and we will pick our favourite.

1. The quality of the skating isn’t the most important part, the prize won’t necessarily be awarded to the person that does the biggest tricks but to the video that we ENJOY the most so it could just be you mucking about doing tricks in your garage or killing a curb.

2. The prize will be for the person who sends us their video, not the person in the video, unless of course you want the person in the video to get it.

3. You can submit more than one video, just put a blank line between them so that the links don’t get messed up.

4. DON’T TRY TO EMBED THEM IN THE COMMENTS, JUST POST THE LINK FROM THE ADDRESS BAR AT THE TOP.

5. Include your name.

GO! Post your links in the comments, we look forward to watching them…

Friday 2nd April, Ed Templeton’s biggest artshow to date opened at the S.M.A.K. in Gent, Belgium. Ed is such a nice guy that he and Emerica would like to offer you and a lucky friend the opportunity to go to Gent to see his exhibition in May. You need to be a fan of Emerica Europe on Facebook to enter the competition ‘Get your ass to Gent’ here: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=277186424945&1&index=0.

All you need to do to win this amazing prize is check out a selection of Ed’s art here:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=163490&id=134722633752
tag yourself in one of the artworks and comment below the picture why you like that piece of art the best.

RULES
- You have to be a fan of Emerica Europe (it helps if you suggest Emerica Europe to your friends)
- You live in Europe
- We will choose a winner on Friday 23rd of April

THE GRAND PRIZE
- travel to Gent in May
- Two nights accommodation
- Entrance to the show (for 2 people)
- Some cash to spend during the weekend

RUNNERS UP PRIZES
- shoes, t-shirts and other stuff….

We are now running an ongoing monthly photo competition on Flickr, all you have to do is add your photos to our group pool and you’ll be in with the chance of winning a 10% discount code to use on our website! We will pick our favourite photo each month and contact you with your code as well as feature your photo on here.

To kick off the competition Skullcandy have very generously given us an Audio Link backpack worth over £100 for our favourite photo in April. The backpack has got built in speakers so you just plug in your iPod or other MP3/CD player and blast out the latest tracks by Lionel Richie or whatever the hell it is you crazy kids are playing this week.

This is a pretty snazzy prize so unless a lot of people submit it’s going to rollover to next month. If you are desperate to win it NOW then get submitting and get your friends to submit, and their friends, and their gran and her dog; you get the idea.

You will have to join Flickr to be able to add your photos but I think it’s worth it! I have added some of my own skate photos to kick things off, good luck, and happy shooting! If you have any questions post them in the comments below or hit me up on Facebook and I’ll help you.

Maybe it’s just me but doesn’t this whole thing sound TERRIBLE??? I suppose it’s better that Dyrdek has done it before some lame conglomerate but still, to me this is soulless skating :-( What do you think?

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LOS ANGELES, CA (March 24, 2010) – Street League Skateboarding™ announced today that for the first time in history, street skateboarding competition has been organized into its very own professional league, with the best skateboarders in the world competing head-to-head in a series of individual tour stops in the summer of 2010. Founded by twenty-year professional skateboarder and entrepreneur, Rob Dyrdek, Street League™ is truly the future of competitive street skateboarding.

Signed to multi-year contracts, a total of twenty-four of the world’s biggest skateboarding stars will compete in Street League™ exclusively. The first pros that have signed are arguably the top skateboarders in the world and include Chris Cole, Ryan Sheckler, Greg Lutzka, Torey Pudwill, PJ Ladd, Sean Malto, Mike Mo Capaldi, Mikey Taylor, Billy Marks, Tommy Sandoval, and Paul Rodriguez. The Street League™ pros will be battling it out for more than $1MM in prize money on a 3-stop arena tour this summer.

Dyrdek, in discussing the origins of the league says, “It has been a dream of mine to create a professional tour that bridges the gap between true street skateboarding and contest skating, which to date has been fragmented and misguided. Street League™ is more than just a new contest series; it will redefine the way skateboarding competitions are done.”

Chris Cole, 2009’s Dew Tour Champion, Maloof Money Cup Winner, two-times X Games gold medalist and Thrasher’s Skater of the Year, in regards to his exclusive commitment to Street League™ adds, “It’s what we have always wanted – it’s a contest circuit that is actually created, owned, and operated by skaters.”

To maximize the talents of these street skateboarding stars, Street League™ has designed authentic concrete skate plazas to be built on the floors of world-class sports arenas. In addition, Street League™ brings with it the exclusive use of the instant scoring technology, ISX (Instant Scoring Experience™), to the world of skateboarding. Using real time scoring and an exciting proprietary format, Street League™ will tell a compelling story about each skateboarder’s performance and will have fans on the edge of their seats from the first trick to the very last.

The inaugural year of Street League™ features a 3-stop arena tour beginning at Jobing.com Arena in Glendale, Arizona on August 28th, Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario, California on September 11th, and the final stop in Las Vegas at the Thomas & Mack Center on September 25th. The skaters will be competing at each event for the largest prize pool in skateboarding history.

Street League™ is the culmination of more than five years of development, which began with a professional contest Dyrdek held at the opening of the world’s first skate plaza he built in Kettering, Ohio in 2005. Building on the knowledge gained from this event, Dyrdek and his team began planning for the launch of the league, consulting for and developing several major skateboarding events to serve as additional case studies.

IMG Action Sports, the go-to event production company in the industry, is producing and executing Street League™ in 2010. The worldwide leader in skate park design and construction, California Skateparks™, will provide skate plaza construction. Instant Scoring Experience™ is a partnership between MXi, Dialsmith, and Street League™.

Right then folks, all you have to do to win one of two of these lovely Globe wallet and belt gift sets is post your absolute best joke in the comments below. The competition closes on Friday 12th March at 17:00. Good luck making me laugh, I’m a grumpy old man!